A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... adopted a circular cutter which operated horizontally ; this design was first tested in 1811. John Common submitted a reaper for a prize offered by the Royal Society of Arts in 1812 . The first really successful reaper was brought out ...
... adopted a circular cutter which operated horizontally ; this design was first tested in 1811. John Common submitted a reaper for a prize offered by the Royal Society of Arts in 1812 . The first really successful reaper was brought out ...
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... adopted , but more on small and medium holdings than on large . The last adopted the combined alternate husbandry and long ley system , while the peasant proprietors preferred the improved three - field system . Cattle were seldom ...
... adopted , but more on small and medium holdings than on large . The last adopted the combined alternate husbandry and long ley system , while the peasant proprietors preferred the improved three - field system . Cattle were seldom ...
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... adopted in Ireland . The field survey was executed on the 6 - in scale , from which the 1 - in maps were made by reduction ; the publication of 6 - in maps of Great Britain was begun , the first sheet for Scotland appearing in 1843 and ...
... adopted in Ireland . The field survey was executed on the 6 - in scale , from which the 1 - in maps were made by reduction ; the publication of 6 - in maps of Great Britain was begun , the first sheet for Scotland appearing in 1843 and ...
Contents
GLASS by L M ANGUSBUTTERWORTH Director The Newton Heath Glass | 12 |
TELEGRAPHY by G R M GARRATT Deputy Keeper Department of Electrical | 22 |
FISH PRESERVATION by C L CUTTING Officer in Charge Humber | 44 |
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agricultural beam became Boulton Boulton and Watt bridge Britain British built canal carbon carried cast iron chemical clay coal Coalbrookdale coke construction copper crops cylinder D. E. Woodall developed diameter driving E. J. HOLMYARD early eighteenth century engine England Europe fallow farming figure fish France French furnace Germany glass heat horizontal husbandry Ibid important improved inches increased industrial revolution introduced invention J. F. Horrabin John Smeaton later lathe London machine machinery manufacture mechanical metal method mill mineral mines Newcomen Newcomen engine nineteenth century obtained operation oxide Paris patent pipe piston plate practice produced pump river road rollers rotation Rotherham plough salt screw sewers shaft ships silk Smeaton smelting Staffordshire steam steam-engine steel stone sulphuric acid surface tion tuyère vertical ware water-wheels watermills Watt whales wheel wooden wrought iron